Process for scoring ice



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PROCESS FOR SCORING TOE.

Application filed November 23, 1922. Serial 1W0. 602,761.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that T, SAMUEL B. Rurzon, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Den ton, in the county of Benton and State of 'lexas, have invented certain, new and useful lmprovements in Processes for Scoring lice, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a process for scoring ice, and the primary object thereof is to provide a process for scoring large cakes of ice to permit same to be subsequently and.

easily broken up or separated into-smaller pieces or blocks, and wherein the scoring is effected easily and quickly and without subjecting the ice to turning or other movements likely to effect chipping and con-.

sequent wastage. i

The inventign also aims to-provide process wherein the ice is first moved in one direction and scored on two opposed faces and is then moved at right an des and in the same horifurther scored on two different and opposed faces, the latter scoring occurring during ejection of the ice from the apparatus.

The drawings illustrate the invention mainly in diagrammatic form, Figure 1, being a side elevation; Figure 2, a top plan view, and Figure 3, a perspective view of a block of ice scored in. accordance with the present invention.

The apparatus illustrated discloses spaced vertical upper and lower saws 1 and 2 which are vertically alined and are driven by any suitable means to produce the cuts 3, 4, 5 and 6 in the cake of ice 7, the ice being carried along guides 20 by any suitable conveyor means, such as the endless chains 8 past the saws 1 and 2. The front side of the machine has an outlet 9 through which the completely scored cake of ice is discharged, and during such discharge, horizontal saws 10 and 11 rotated by any suitable means-score the ice cake on the opposite side faces thereof, as indicated at 12 and 13, the

ice being carried onto the right angular guides 21 by the conveyor 8 and onto conveyor 14 and by means of the latter being carried past the saws 10 and 11 and discharged from the machine.

The guides 20 and 21 and the two conveyors 8 and 14 are disposed in the same horizontal plane, so that the ice is not subjected to any violent or turning or other movements likely to chip or break same,

stops 23 on the chains 8 and a similar stop 2d on chain 14 effects movement of the ice along. the respective guides.

In operation, the ice is placed on guides 20 and upon engagement thereof by the stops or propelling fingers 23, is moved past saws 1' and 2 and scored at 3, 4, 5 and 6 and then moved onto guides 21, whereupon, when the cake is engaged with the propelling finger 24 same will be moved through discharge 9 and scored by the sawslO and 11 as indicated at 12 and 13, emerging through guidance of the saws 10 and 11.

The process is simple, and easy of operation and quickly effects the desired scoring without turning dropping or other violent motion imparted to the ice, the several scorings being made by a simple right angular movement of the ice in one and the same horizontal plane. The ice is scored deeper in a transverse direction than longitudinally thereby allowing it to be handled with less possibility of remature breakage, and also causing it to reak cleanly into the subdivisions determined by the scoring.

What is claimed is 1. The hereindescribed process of scoring cakes of ice which includes moving the ice in one direction and simultaneously vertically scoring same on its topand bottom faces,

* then in moving the ice in a second direction during said right angular movement thereof.

3. The hereindescribed process of scoring cakes of ice which resides in scoring the ice along shallow lines longitudinally thereof and on oppositeside faces and then in scoring the ice along deeper lines transversely of the cake and on opposite side faces thereof.

4. The hereindescribed process of scoring ice cakes which consists in scoring the cake on the top and bottom sides thereof and on lines transversely of the cake, and'in scoring the cake on opposite sides and longitudinally its ltd

thereof and at points between and Sp ced fi om the trariversesc ores.

" fil'The l ex eindescrilg ed prpcess for scoring broken, without waste.

SAMUEL B RAYZQR- 

